Senior Manager, MEQI Strategic Partnerships

About this role

Job Title: Senior Manager, MEQI Strategic Partnerships
Location: Remote
Description
Founded in 2004, BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs for local, regional, and state government partners. Our work supports evidence-based, community-driven solutions that strengthen public health systems and advance equity across the communities we serve. At BME, our clients are on the front lines of Public Health. Priorities may shift but our commitment to supporting our partners does not. We take pride in having multi-year, multi-project engagements, often working closely as an extension of their staff. Our success comes from our shared values: a bias toward action; optimistically collaborative; willingness to navigate ambiguity; minimal ego - no job is too small or big; pursuing the equitable solution; always learning, and; committed to quality at every stage.
Position Overview
The Senior Manager, MEQI Strategic Partnerships is a new, dedicated business development role supporting BME's Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement (MEQI) practice, which delivers participatory local evidence, evidence at scale, continuous improvement, and data systems support to public health clients. This role will support pipeline development relevant to adjacent practice areas including clinical care access data and AI-assisted analytics. The role is managed by the MEQI Practice Area Lead, and works in close partnership with MEQI staff. Additionally, this role collaborates closely with MEQI pillar leadership and technical teams to transform client insights into well-scoped, deliverable solutions.
Because BME's growth model relies on relationship-driven trust acceleration, this position requires a dedicated business development capacity combined with a strong technical understanding. The primary market focus for this role spans public health data modernization, health information exchange (HIE), AI-assisted public health analytics, and RHTP-aligned technology and performance measurement. The right candidate brings a network of in-state and provider health data systems and a track record of translating deep knowledge of client priorities in this space into sustained relationships and new business; they also possess the strategic instinct to rapidly analyze conferences, procurement landscapes, and partner discussions, identifying clear opportunities where BME can effectively address client needs. By cultivating deep and consistent relationships, they ensure clients have full confidence in BME long before formal opportunities arise.
Key Responsibilities
BME Org-Wide Responsibilities for Senior Managers:

• Independently owns Core Business Operations (CBOT) workstreams and defines how work is structured and executed

• Proactively identifies needs and contributes to how the CBOT operates

• Manages staff within CBOT

• Oversees workstream quality and team output

• Accountable for CBOT deliverables in the Associate Director's absence

• Manages Assistants, Coordinators, and Managers within Core Business Operations Team

• Firm Development & Operational Contributions: proactively identifies gaps and leads improvement efforts across the CBOT; represents the CBOT on cross-practice working groups; contributes to internal policy development

• Internal Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration: cultivates effective working relationships across practice areas and with leadership; anticipates cross-practice needs and surfaces them proactively; leads coordination on firm-wide initiatives and serves as a point of contact for the Core Business Operations Team in the absence of the Associate Director.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Pipeline Sourcing & Communications::

• Maintain a consistent external presence (LinkedIn, newsletters, relevant forums) on behalf of BME relating to health data systems.

• Coordinate with BME’s Business Development (BD) team, MEQI practice and firm leadership on priorities, pipeline status, and resourcing needs; own day-to-day pipeline tracking and opportunity identification across public health data modernization, AI-assisted analytics, HIE integration, and RHTP-aligned evaluation and TA.

• Bring qualified opportunities to BD colleagues, MEQI practice and firm leadership go/no-go review and technical shaping.

• Coordinate with BME's marketing communications function on case studies, capability briefs, and external messaging; maintain a consistent external presence on behalf of BME’s service offerings in health data systems support.

• Other duties as assigned in support of BME's mission and growth priorities.

• Relationship Cultivation & Partnership Development:

• Build and maintain a network of clients, prospective primes, and partner organizations across public health data modernization, HIE, AI-assisted analytics, and RHTP-aligned technology.

• Steward and deepen BME's existing strategic partnerships relevant to health data systems; identify and cultivate additional values-aligned partnership candidates.

• Support teaming discussions and early-stage subcontract conversations, in coordination with MEQI practice and firm leadership.

• Conference & Speaking Presence:

• Identify, plan, and staff conference attendance and speaking opportunities relevant to health data systems (e.g., HIMSS, PHII Data Summit, NACCHO, ASTHO, state-level health IT forums).

• Represent BME in venues where relationship-building and visibility are the primary goal.

• Coordinate with MEQI practice and firm leadership to identify speaking opportunities suited to their technical expertise, and support their conference logistics.
Experience, Qualification, & Skills

• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience in business development, strategic partnership, or client relationship management in health IT, public health consulting, or a closely adjacent sector required

• 4+ years in a consulting firm…